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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21

In 1886 the wheat yield of Eddy county
was 10000 bushels. In 1887, up TO Nov.
Is. the receipts at the New Rockford ell
evatorS were a trif1e less than 100000
bushels. The approximate of this years
yield is put by conservative figurerS at
$4,000 bushels. New RockfOrd'S ele
vator capacity S 10000 bushels, equally
divided between the Northern Pacific,
the Northern Dakota and the Christian
companies. 1t can readily be imagined
that with this limited capacity for hand
ling and storing so large crop, and the
railroads inability to furnish cars
to remove it, the gorge at this
place has been tremendous.
Your correspondent has seen from
his Office window forty wagon loads of
wheat ranged at dusk before the ele-
vatOr tramwayS, with wheat i'll sacks
piled up OH the ground, awaiting an UNI
certain chance to find room. Whatever
may have been the case at other points,
the railway is not cenSured here for the
scarcity of cars, for nearly every day
the passenger train brings in few. and
the freight run on the jamestown d
Northern is wearing out the crews. The
size of the crop was unexpected.
The Minnesota d Dakota opens
world of new possibilities for New
Rockford. In developing wide range
of new tributary country and in prOvid-
ing Independent competitive facilities
for transportation to and from Eastern
markets, it establishes our city at once
on an even footing with the larger
towns of Dakota. Both city and county
real estate are suddenly increased in
value and in active demand. Within
the next two years New Rockford will
be city of 1000 people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
CATCHING THE OTTER.
Cowboys Have a Plan for Taking
Them Which They Suggest to
StranOerS

Owing to the falling of the lakes of
Upper and Lower Klamath the otter is,
perhaps, more visibly plentiful now than
it has been for several years past, and
a curious circumstance connected with
the otter is its migration from one lake
to another over mountainous country.
Lower Klamath lake, which extends far
into California, is yearly losing its
later Lower Klamath will run dry. 1t
may be that this apprehension is also
shared by the otter for he
is constantly making overland
Journeys from Lower Klamath lake
to Tule lake. About two weeks
ago magnificent otter was killed by
some cowboys, with their 'lasSo ropes"
fully mile away from any water. The
cowboys declare that the proper way to
capture an otter without hurting his
skin is for the hunter to put on huge
pair of loose-fitting high boots. stuff
the feet and legs with gravel and
then wade the stream. The otter is a
pugilistic creature, and no sooner does
he see strange pair of legs in the wa
ter than he will make a dash for them
seize leg with his teeth and will only
loosen his hold with death. Though
1LOoI Nv III AiuIiolh
would yield prolific otter-fur
harvest to the hunter by this
method, l never saw cowboy daring
enough to make the venture, yet was
often present when they were attempt
ing to induce an unwary stranger to
make the attempt. The beavers whose
deserted huts and dams can be seen all
all along Lost river, are yet plentiful.
but they do not stand in high repute
with the cowboy other than as target
for pistol practice.
The prices that the furrierS offer for
good otter and beaver, however, are
ridieulOusly low, compared to the value
that they afterward place upon dressed
hide, large-SiZed otter only fetching
$3.50 to Sc and beaver from $3.50 to 50,
and the same price is paid for an Alaska
beaver as for one from Oregon. The
fur of the otter in the winter months is
indeed handsom, dark and glossy, with
a close, smooth netting, and, when prop
erly dressed and plucked, makes pretty
tippetS, muffS and cuffs. 1t is not I'M
common to see cowboys in that northern
country with chaparejOS made from
otter and beaver fur. The cowboy,
however, is not good hunter, and rel
egates that task to the Indians. The In
dams have, however, good notion of
charges, and will not undertake to cure
skin under 81, no matter how small it
may be.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
HEBREW BUTCHERS.
The Elaborate Education Re-
uujred by Their Profession. ,

The Hebrew butcher is no unimpOrt!
ant parsonage. says the st. Louis Globe,
Generally he does not begin to exercise
the duties of his profession until he is
twenty-five years of age, for he cannot
secure certificate before that time..
The first question is that he shall be a
man of good character. He is obliged
to have thorough knowledge of the
Bible and the Talmud, more especially
of those passages which have bearing
OH his duties. For at least a year the
wOuld-be shochat serves a sort of APP
premiership at a butchershop under
two shochatim. and, finally, on their.
recommendation, he receives a certili-
cafe from the chief rabbi. He must be
an expert i'll preparing his own knife...
1t must he so sharp and smooth that
microscope will not reveal hicks in the
edge. Sometimes the rabbi, protesting
not to believe that the ShOchat has pre-
pared the knife himself, takes it up and
jibS the edge so as to make nick, re-
turns it and bids him sharpen it anew.
At other times he denies that the knife
is in good condition, and if the ShOchat
is doubtful about it, he gets no certifi-
cate. He must ''have a mind of his
Own," and be able to stand by his
dcSClllOu OtiCI
man. Years ago ST. Louis shOchat
informed a reporter the knife was tested
by being drawn through water. Even
slight nick would cause ripple on
either side, and if that ripple followed
the course of the blade the latter was
pronounced unfit to use. After the
shOchat has received his certificate it is
good for lifetime, unless blemish
comes upon his character, when
his certificate is taken away. He
has to be different. even in APP
pearance, from other men. OrthO-
dOx Jews observe the injunction, Thou
shalt not mar the corners of thy beard"
but his beard must be little longer than
the others, and so must his coat. He is
even forbidden to dance with maid or
matron. In short, he must be orthodox
of the orthodox. They generally are
employed by butchers at fixed wages,
but when an individual brings fowl to
the sh0chat to kill he pays him cents
for chicken and 10 cents for larger
bird. 1t is told with a thrill of
horror among old orthodox resi-
dents that many years ago
one of the Jewish families which then
lived in the block on Sixth street, be-
tween Carr and Biddle, had an Irish
servant maid whose duty it was to take
a chicken almost daily to the chochat
for killing. With the fowl she received
a nickel to pay the religious slaught-
erer. Moved by love of gain in
small way, she was wont to pocket that
nickel and kill the chicken herself.
After about year he employers dis
covered how they had been made the
victims of Hibernian treachery and had
been defling themselves with trefe
meat
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
The Partisan Dandy.

The genuine Partisan dude is an ex-
quisite of the first water. His evening
dress is profound study, almost classic
in its severity and yet chic beyond the
ken of ordinary humanity, says the
Boston Herald. He wears two studs in
his shirt front now, and his coat collar
lapels are of dull silk. The length of
his coat tails might be designated as
"bobby," but his waistcoat is buttoned
rather higher than it was last winter;
his tie indicates genius, and genius UNI
adorned at that, for not jeweled pin
of any sort relieves its immaculateness.
Putty colOred gloves without stitching
on the back, are worn, and he carries
cane with an embossed gold knob of a
size that renders it impossible to get it
in his mouth. Sucking his cane and
putting his hands in his pockets being
prohibited this season, dudedom has to
rely on some other means to keep its
equilibrium, but just what the Partisan
product has adopted remains secret.
Doubtless we shall know in good time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21

cap, will be desirable; in cold weather
wooden cap is best. This cap should
be put on as soon as the car is entered.
A loose blouse should take the place of
the coat usually worn. Slippers must
not be worn. If there is a draught in
the car, face it; do not let 1t strike the
back. Have the bed made with its head
toward the engine; the dust will then
be driven to the foot, where it will do
the least harm. But be sure to have
sufficient quantity of bed clothes to keep
warm. A soft, l0ose-knit WOODEN hood
is the best headwear for women; this
should be worn at night also. 1t should
be warmer in winter than in summer
months. The .corSets should be re-
moved at night and loose WOODEN wrap
per worn for night dress. The stock
ing supporters, as well as every con-
stricting band around the waist, should
be lOOsened. Every adult should take
from five to ten grains of quinine on
going to bed. 1t will be well to rub the
hands, feet, face and neck with little
YaSeline at the same time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
THE WESTERN LEAGUE.
A Word About the Teams of the
New Organization.

n ~ Oiu 11OOuI lIlC
New Organization.
The rumOr that Kansas City was about
to desert to the American association
has caused a great deal of comment in
Western league cities during the week.
Negotiations are still pending, and the
hitch seems to be in the price asked for
some of the Metropolitan players. PreSi-
dent Won der Ahe,of st. Louis, has gone
East to try to arrange a compromise.
The enthusiasm of President Menges,
of Kansas City. over the project does
not seem to have run away with his
head, for when he returned from st.
Louis the other day he remarked that
he would rather be a big toad in a
small puddle than little toad in a big
puddle" which means great deal, and
does credit to the intelligence of Mr..
Menges. That the change, if made,
would prove disastrous to Kansas City
no one fully acquainted with the lay of
the land seems to doubt. Manager Selee,
of Oshkosh, appears to still have the
nucleus of a great club at his command.
1t is announced that his negotiations
with Omaha have been broken off, and
that Minneapolis has concluded not to
make any further attempts to capture
him or his men. Manager Foster has
signed McCullOm and BrOSnan to play
in the Flour City next year. With the
exception of Omaha the Western league
teams are already pretty we'll made up,
but it is pretty difficult to correctly
gauge their relative strength. Won der
Abe, of st. Louis, has signed nearly
thirty men. but he himself does not yet
know which of these he will play In the
Western league team. Kansas City has
about fifteen men, the cracks of the old
Western league, and the Kansas City
papers hint that the best base ball ag-
gregatiOn in the new organization will
hail from the city on the Kaw. Chicago
has signed about a dozen players, some
of them well known, but from this dis
lance the team does not look strong.
Milwaukee has considerably weaker
team than last year, but nothing seems
TO be needed in Milwaukee except Harris
luck. Omaha is still an enigma, Mime
apOlis is about as last year, st. Paul is
building on hope and DeS MOineS on
bluster. Things may be different next
spring.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
MILES OF SKELETONS.
The Buffalo Being Rapidly Exter.
manifestations ofThem Ruth
ieSSlv Sian Qhtered nv Hunters

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OfThem Ruth
lessly Slaughtered by Hunters.
The time is rapily approaching when
the American buffalo will only be
seen in the museum and geological gar
den. They are disappearing from the
pralrleS that were once peOpled with
100000 of these ponderous creatures,
even their bones that Whitened the
plains are being carted away to be
ground up into phosphates.
William HOmaday, who has recently
visited the plains, describes the scene
of desOlati0n in the once famous buffalo
range to the readers of the COsmopOli-
tan. He writes that from the Red
Buttes onward you see where the mill
ions have gone. This was once famous
skeletons lie scattered thickly all along
the trail. Like CHASTITY monuments
of slaughter, these ugly excrescenceS
stand out in bold relief on the smooth
hard surface of the prairie, from the
huge bull skeletons lying close beside
the wagon trail to those far back in the
bad lands, where they are merely dark
SpeckS in the distance. They lie to day
precisely as they fell four years ago,
except that the flesh is no longer upon
them. The head stretches far forward,
asif for its last gasp, and the legs lie
heplessly upon the turf with precisely
the same curves as when they moved
for the last time.
Now and then you come to place
where the hunter got ''Stand'' on a
the head of a gully or among the rocks,
fired leisureIy with his 4O-i2O Sharp's
rifle at the rate of a shot every two or
three minutes until every buffalo of the
bunch had fallen. Here you can count
seventeen skeletons on little less than
an acre, and near by are fourteen
more that evidently fell at the same
time. The powerful effect of the
strong, parching winds and the intense
dry heat of summer has literally stripped
the flesh from the bones, but the Skele-
tons lie precisely as they fell. The
bones are still held together by a few
dried-up ligaments, but are bleached as
white as snow. sometimes we found
immense skeletons that were alb
sOlutely perfect, even to the tiny
carpal and tarSal bones, the size of
haZel-nut," writes Mr.. Homaday. 'Of
these dry skeletons we selected eight of
the finest and largest, and they are now
cached in the StOrage-roomS of the Ma
tiOnal Museum against the great famine
for bison that WILSON set in. Beyond
the Red Buttes we were seldom out of
sight of bleaching skeletons, and often
forty or fifty were in sight at one time.
The SINNERS always left the heads of
the bulls unSkinned, and the thick
hide has dried down upon the
skulls harder than the bone itself,
holding the tangled masses of the shay
gy frontlet firmly in place until it
bleacheS brown in the sunshine and is
finally worn away by wind and weather.
Many of these heads are so perfectly
preserved, and with their thick masses
of wavy brown hair are so fresh looking,
that the slaughter of the millions is
brought right down to the present, and
seems to have been the work of yester-
daVD
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
FIGHTS TO A FINISH.
The Ithaca Giant ManifeStS
His Willingness to Meet
Pat Killen,
And About Eight Weeks From
Now Somebody Will Get a
Sound Thrashing.
Sports Talking a Good Deal
About the Coming War;
ren-O'Leary Mill.
Brief Reference to the Teams
Composing the West
ern League.

The pUgiliStS of the Northwest are
manifeSting a decided inclination to
handle one another without gloves, so
to speak. The six, eight, ten and fif-
teen-round hall fight is becoming alto
gether too tame, and the disposition to
go into the woods or into some farmers
barn over in the Badger state and have
it out with kid gloves is very marked.
The heayyweights, the lightweightS and
the featherweightS are no longer look
ing for iaurels by the ''draw'' route in
the presence of great audience. They
want to take twenty, fifty or hundred
friends 10 a quiet spot where policemen
least do cOngregate, and fight, not
for fun. not for money, but to get thor
Ough satisfaction by whipping some
body so that he will stay whipped. Con-
ley, the Ithaca Giant.a week ago offered
to fight killen under any rules for any
amount at any time or place. killen
did not at first answer, but tried to ar
range another mill with Cardiff. The
latter. however, refused to consider any
proposition looking to a fight, so on Fri
day hillen said he would fight Conley
to finish with kid gloves eight weeks
from GATE Tor Sl,O0O SIDE ana the en-
tire gate receipts, the place of meeting
to be west of Chicago. At o'clock last
evening the sporting editor of the GLOBE
received the following telegram:
ASHLAND. Wis. Nov. 2O.-Conley accepts
Kittens challenge. Let killen name date
and place OF meeting. j. d. HAYES,
Backer of NJ. C. Conley.
This. of course, means that KilIen
and COnley will go into the ring to-
gether. and the probabilities are largely
in favor of somebody getting whipped
before they come out.
WARREN VS.. O'LEARY.
Another mill that is exciting a great
deal of talk in sporting circles just now
is that between Warren and O'Leary,
which is booked to occur Jan. or there
aboilts. This will be a fight. There
will he no hippodroming in this battle.
The friends Of the two men know the
bitter feeling existing between them,
and they know that when tie bantamS
meet they will use their fists in way
TO do the greatest execution. The War
ren-Weir mill is causing a good deal of
comment Oh account of the reputation
of the two men. but nobody believes
they will fight as hard as Warren and
O'Ieary.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
The Toad and Its PREY.

The accuracy of aim in the young toad
is similar to the accuracy with which
the young quail or chicken picks up
grain. A young chicken, having only
its head out of the shell, picked up fly
that lighted near it. And, said Mr..
Cathrop, when you consider the nice CO.
operation of nervous and muscular
movements necessary to this feat, you
will perceive that the chicken must
have been practicing fly catching in the
person of its ancestry for thousands or
millions of years. But l once had cur
iOus proof that the toad is capable of i'm
provement by practice, says Nature:
Under a bee hive l observed for
several successive summers a toad
watching for overloaded bees who failed
to reach the threshold of the hive. No
sooner did they fall Oh the ground than
he snapped them up. But one day 1
saw he had lost by some accident, his
right eye, and when he struck at a bee
he lost his aim and picked up dirt from
one side of the bee. He wiped his
mouth with his fOrepaw and tried
again and again. The bee generally
managed to climb to the top of some
little prominence on the ground, and
fly away before the toad succeeded.
The poor fellow was half starved and
grew thin. But observed before the
summer was ended he had learned to
aim as correctly with one eye as he used
to with two, and had again recovered
his plumpness.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
The Discoverer of spectacIes.

London Standard.
Fewer inventions has conferred a
greater blessing on the human race than
that which assists impaired vision. DR..
Johnson rightly expressed his surprise
that such benefactOr as the discOverer
of spectacleS should have been regarded
with Indifference and found no worthy
biOgrapher to celebrate his ingenuity.
Unfortunately, however, his name is a
matter of much uncertainty, and hence
a grateful pOSterity may have
been prevented from beStoWing
upon his memory that honor which
it has so richly merited. But it may be
noted that popular opinion has long ago
pronounced in favor of Spina, Floren-
tine monk, as the rIghtful claimant, al
though some are i'll favor of Roger
Bacon. Monsieur Spoon. in his Re
searches CurieuSes d'Antiquite," fixes
the date of the invention of spectacles
between the years 1850 and 1911, and
says that Alexander de Spina, having
seen a pair made by some other
person, who was unwilling to commune
cate the secret of their construction,
ordered a pair for himself, and found
them so useful that he cheerfully and
promptly made the invention public.
According to an Italian antiquary, the
person to whom Spina was indebted for
the information was Salvin0. who died
in the year 1918, and he quotes from
manuscript in his possession an epitaph
which records the circumstance: ''Here
lies Saline ArmotO d'Armati of Flor
ence. the inventor of spectacles. May
God pardon his sins. The year 1875"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
A Sight to Feast the Eyes.

COpur u Acne sun.
There was sight in Buckskin Gulch
yesterday that would have made the
oldest placer miners heart leap with
JOY. The surface gravel had been
washed off, and the large cut in the
jagged bedrock for over 100 feet was a
mass of glittering gold. In places
where it had lodged in the crevices it
could be picked up by the spoonful.
About pint of nuggets, from $40 to $50
in weight, were picked up in the fore
noon by Charles Dudley; and about
twenty pounds of gold had already
been taken to the bank, which had been
scooped out of the pOth0les. No very
large pieces had been found, the largest
would probably not go over three
ounces. The cleanup, which will prob
ably take two or three days yet to make
complete, will be by far the largest ever
made in the camp. 1t is estimated TO
reach fifty pounds, OF in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
SAUERKRAUT MAKING.
A Peculiar Industry in Pennsyl-
Vania---A Professional Cabbage

A Peculiar Industry in Pennsyl-
Vania---A Professional Cabbage
Cutter.
Reading Letter
The busiest persons in this city at
present are those of calling which
probably is unknown in any other
place in this country. That calling is
the professional cutting of cabbage for
sauerkraut making. The cutter travels
about the city from house to house
from the latter part of October until the
middle of November, by which time the
sauerkraut making season Is over. The
father of the business is Michael Bruck-
man, who has cut cabbage for Readings
best families for many years. There
are few families in this city, from the
highest to the lowest, that fail to put
down a supply of Sauerkraut every fall.
Bruckman alone cuts up 200 heads of
cabbage day during the putting-down
season. His cabbage cutter he inn
ported from Germany, and he says
there is not another like it in this cOun-
try.
1t is the well-to-do families and sa-
loOnkeeperS who hire their cabbage cut.
although the charge is only l cent a
customers of the cabbage-cutters, for
they order hundreds of heads cut at a
time. Sauerkraut for lunch is one of
the delicacieS of Reading all the year
round.
During the last half of October and
the first half of November Cutter Bruck-
man estimates there are not less than
1000 heads of cabbage cut every day for
sauerkraut i'll Reading, or 10000 heads
for the season. Those who do not hire
tLeir kraut stock cut have cutters of
their own, or wait their turn to borrow
of neighbOr who has. No Read
ing household is exactly COM
plete without cabbage cutter.
The person who cuts cabbage for
kraut professionally has nothing to do
with the making of the kraut. That is
done by the family. and the family in
Berks county that does not know all
the mysteries of sauerkraut-making
had better keep its ignorance to itself.
No family puts down less than ten heads
of cabbage in pickle to ''ripen" into
kraut, while the cutter frequently has
job of hundred heads or more to cut
at a single house.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Assessment for Grading Park
Avenue and Other Streets.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS., l
CITY OF ST. PAUL. Mimi, Nov. Is. 1887.
The Board of Public Works In and for
the corporation of the city of st. Paul,
Minnesota. will meet at their office in
said city at Up. m. on the 28th day of No
vember, A. D. 1SS7,to make an assess
ment of benefits, costs and expenses
arising from grading Park avenue, from
Sycamore street to Maryland street;
Sycamore street, from Rice street to
Sylvan street; Lyton place, from Rice
street to Sylvan street; AtwateI street,
from Rice street to Sylvan street; Win
nipeg avenue, from Rice street to Syl-
van street; Manitoba avenue. from Rice
street to Sylvan street; Litchfeld street,
from Rice street to Sylvan street; Front
street, from Rice street to Sylvan street;
and Cook street, from Rice street to Syl-
van street, in said city, on the property
on the line Of said improvement, and
deemed benefited thereby amounting
in the aggregate to 16,30O.65.
All persons interested are hereby no
titled to be present at said time and
place Of making said assessment, and
will be heard
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. r. ERWIN,
324325 Clerk Board of Public W orks.